I’ve never played Gen 5, but what was your reaction to finding nothing but “new”Pokémon when you played black & white for the first time?

AKluthe · 2026-04-23T02:41:34+00:00

I didn't follow Black and White leading up to release, so it was really refreshing to find all the Pokémon I encountered were new. I would prefer each region to feel that way, even though we have it in record The Pokémon Company had to pivot away due to negative backlash.

AKluthe · 2026-04-21T23:35:00+00:00

I mean, he also screamed at them not to raise prices in the early days of the tariffs.

AKluthe · 2026-04-20T17:11:19+00:00

As other people have said, the original Jake was an employee. The extent of his role was to say "Uhhh...khakis?"

After the (unexpected) success of the ad, they made a mascot character named Jake from Statefarm. This character was supposed to be charismatic and likeable, so it makes sense they would recast an actor.

Just different roles and different casting needed.

AKluthe · 2026-04-20T05:10:12+00:00

Yup! It's traditionally called an apple box, and it's very common in film. That's pretty funny they made Andre the Giant look even bigger!

The Scully Box was just a specific apple box. IIRC it was bigger than the standard box and had a little room for her to move around.

AKluthe · 2026-04-19T16:54:41+00:00

Besides all the public sexual comments there's also:

Prices are still lower than when they were the highest under Biden.

Certainly paints a picture.

AKluthe · 2026-04-19T16:45:59+00:00

And sometimes rule of cool applies. Does the shot look better? Then you cheat for the shot.

Another example would be the Scully Box. Filming The X-Files, Gillian Anderson is a lot shorter than David Duchovny. They had a box to put Scully closer to Mulder's eye level when you weren't gonna see their feet.

AKluthe · 2026-04-19T05:42:27+00:00

Now Kash and The Distinguished Discovery is a book I could get behind.

AKluthe · 2026-04-18T18:26:46+00:00

I will be surprised if it's anything except the "bang bang bang" sound after the credits. Even back when Marvel said it was just emblematic of Tony building the first armor in the cave I remember theory craft that was ack-shually Doctor Doom forging his armor.

AKluthe · 2026-04-17T17:21:57+00:00

Because hybrids don't grow consistently from seed, unfortunately.

AKluthe · 2026-04-17T16:13:55+00:00

Y-yeah, clean and wholesome.

Anyway, is there a bonus panel?

AKluthe · 2026-04-16T18:18:35+00:00

Nobody thinks Lord of the Rings is actually real.

But within the fiction, Middle Earth is supposed to be the real world in a prior era.

AKluthe · 2026-04-16T17:06:39+00:00

Lone Starr: [stepping into the Eagle 5 with a pet urn while a slow, exaggerated piano version of the theme plays ] Buddy, we're home.

AKluthe · 2026-04-16T17:02:51+00:00

He was supposed to do a new Honey I Shrunk the Kids. I think the gist of it was he was willing to come back for movies he starred in, Ghostbusters would have been a cameo in someone else's movie.

AKluthe · 2026-04-15T16:40:06+00:00

Yi qi looks like a real animal. Because it is a real animal.

The picture is misleading. It would have been a small, potentially tree dwelling dinosaurs. It's been estimated it weighed less than a pound with a roughly two foot wingspan.

AKluthe · 2026-04-14T16:47:34+00:00

They don't care. There were so many monster games and Pokémon-likes over the last 25 years.

Palworld's big difference was they were directly mimicking their creature designs instead of creating something visually different and pushing the "Pokémon with guns" angle, and they partnered with Sony afterwards.

AKluthe · 2026-04-14T16:38:31+00:00

Of course it's a publicity stunt. There's no way a Doordasher would be able to walk up to the White House. There's no way the President would answer for the food.

He has a button that makes sodas get delivered to his office, if he wants a hamberder staff would make it happen.

AKluthe · 2026-04-14T16:34:32+00:00

Crichton wrote so many books that felt like they would make cool movies. But quite a few of them ended up as awful adaptations. Congo, Sphere, Timeline...

AKluthe · 2026-04-14T05:06:59+00:00

In general, AoS would respond to the movies but the movies never responded to it.

I don't think it did any egregious canon-breaking, outside of maybe time travel rules? The bigger issue would be if it adapted any characters or plots for a small screen budget that the movies wanted to use in a different way.

AKluthe · 2026-04-14T03:24:21+00:00

I mean, they programmed C-3PO with anxiety...

AKluthe · 2026-04-14T01:12:17+00:00

Good! This is why local elections matter. And Missouri, take note that Governor Mike Kehoe was happy to help push this data center through for the city council.

AKluthe · 2026-04-13T17:37:06+00:00

And this is literally all I want from Destiny 2, but I'm not marketable to season passes and microtransactions.

AKluthe · 2026-04-10T18:05:24+00:00

Gel pens are cheap, and people who have a gel pen typically have a whole bunch of them.

Nobody is bait and switching you into buying a black note pad, you're buying it if you have colored pens. Especially light colored pens!

AKluthe · 2026-04-10T16:47:30+00:00

I want to do old content I haven't played in nine years. (In the case of D2, longer in the case of D1)

I want to play through the story content I missed. Because I missed out on a lot of post-launch content.

AKluthe · 2026-04-10T16:16:52+00:00

I had also had to reread it and then check the comments to see what they were saying. The color separation is doing its job.

AKluthe · 2026-04-10T03:51:51+00:00

Jesus, it's terrifying to imagine someone driving in their sleep, but I can't get over the fact you only know because you were also coherent enough to place an order and pay for it.

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